Hotels for Fat Freddy's Drop: 21st anniversary of Based on a True Story

Twenty-one years on from its release, this record still fills a room with the wobbling bass and horn lines that made it a slow-burning word-of-mouth favourite rather than a chart moment. Expect a crowd that knows the extended dub breakdowns as well as the singles, and a band happy to stretch songs well past their album lengths on a big stage.

It's a Friday evening show, so the room fills gradually rather than all at once, with the atmosphere building through the support and warm-up before the main set properly takes off.

Perched on a north London hilltop with sweeping views over the city, 'Ally Pally' is a grand Victorian pleasure palace turned much-loved concert, festival and darts venue. Its surrounding parkland, boating lake and the leafy streets of Muswell Hill and Wood Green give the area a relaxed, village-ish feel.

Alexandra Palace rail station and buses climb toward the entrance, linking to King's Cross in minutes. An overnight base nearby means you can enjoy the hilltop setting without a long downhill journey after dark.